Blog Ham, Spam and Makin’ Bac’n
You know what blog spam is, yes? Those annoying posts filled with links to things I shall not mention for fear of attracting those people by speaking their language. Akismet takes care of blog spam for us.
Blog ham is the opposite of blog spam. Blog ham refers to posts that are legitimate, but are mistakenly marked as spam. Usually because they contain links or filtered words.
And bac’n?
Bacn (pronounced bacon) is the term given to electronic messages which have been subscribed to and are therefore not unsolicited but are often unread by the recipient for a long period of time, if at all. [wikipedia]
Now, why wouldn’t people read what they subscribed to? Read more
[Internet] Marketing Pie
Note: I originally wrote this in 1999. Thought it was worth bringing back to the future.
Little Jack Horner sat in a corner eating his marketing pie.
He stuck in his thumb, and tossed me a crumb, and said;
“What a smart boy am I!”
It was one of those nights. Wide awake.
Tic toc, two o’clock.
My thoughts were on the people flocking to the Internet looking to build their future or repair their past. Hopes and dreams rolled up into how to programs and affiliate tags. The next morning, Jack was still kicking around, hawking;
“Sign up here. Do what I do.
I pay commission. You’ll get rich, too.”
Sadly, it is people with the highest hopes that are so easily blinded by the glitter of money for nothing. Dreams die hard, and hope doesn’t pay the bills. Read more
Blogging Traffic Tip; Use SEO Titles
Want more blog traffic? Before you post, stop and ask yourself — who would want to read this? What would they search for if they were looking for something like this? Then, use those words in your post title.
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